Posts Tagged ‘Calvin and Hobbes’

lately (more like always) I’ve been refusing to grow up, acting more irresponsible and struggling with myself about stuff I have to do, but I don’t want to etc. Yesterday I’ve stumbled upon several grown up Calvin & Hobbes strips, which reminded me, that growing up can be nice too :). Here an inspiration for me and my fellow-growing-up-denier:

At the beginning of this blog almost every second post was about Calvin & Hobbes, but since I’m 80% Calvin I’ve been so selfish that it’s been a year (omg, that long…) since the last Calvin & Hobbes post. Yep, it kind of was all about me last year…

But now I have to thank Ted (who was so nice to tell me about this), Dan & Tom (who are making it) for bringing some more Calvin & Hobbes to this blog, well, to be specific Hobbes & Bacon. Here little Bacon meets old Hobbes, enjoy ❗ :

Sweet Kristin told me, that I’m intelligent. I enjoy that little compliment (10x Kristin), but it just got me thinking about what did I enjoy about it and what does intelligent means after all?

What could look intelligent on that blog, written in poor English and representing nothing but some random, spontaneous thoughts? Do you think I’m intelligent? Do you think you’re intelligent? What do you think that intelligent means?

There are a bunch of theories of intelligence and I don’t want to bother you with them, because they can’t give you an answer to these questions. You need to define it for yourself. So do I.

So for me intelligence is really simple, it’s about being open-minded, getting along and having some kind of concept of the world around you. Of course creativity will be well received too:

I don’t really care what a test would tell me about it, but I still enjoy such little nice compliments and I’m glad when I score good in a test. Why? Because I think of me as of an intelligent person and I enjoy an occasional compliment, because that means to me that my self-perception is not so deluded and that others see me at least a little bit like I see myself. What about you?